Ukraine-canada fo­rum set for Toronto on June 20

Ukraine's next big free trade agree­ment is likely to come soon with Canada, with an agree­ment signed this sum­mer af­ter a June 20 busi­ness con­fer­ence in Toronto. Cana­dian Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau is ex­pected to visit Ukraine in July.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions are also un­der way with Turkey and Is­rael.

The Cana­dian agree­ment will open the North Amer­i­can na­tion to most Ukrainian goods, pro­mote joint ven­tures and in­vest­ment and help Ukrainian pro­duc­ers get ac­cess to raw ma­te­ri­als. More de­tails are here: http://me.gov.ua/doc­u­ments/ List?lang=uk-ua&tag=in­fo­grafika&pa­gen um­ber=3

The big­gest step for­ward this year came with a free-trade agree­ment that came into ef­fect in Jan­uary with the Euro­pean Union. Ukraine has for sev­eral years had agree­ments with fel­low Soviet re­publics.

The "Ukraine-canada: Open For Busi­ness" fo­rum takes place at the Toronto Congress Cen­tre on June 20. More in­for­ma­tion can be found here http://fo­rum.cucc. ca/program.html

One of the par­tic­i­pants, Daniel Bi­lak, man­ag­ing part­ner of CMS Cameron Mckenna, said the fo­rum will pro­vide "a unique op­por­tu­nity for Cana­dian busi­ness to un­der­stand the im­pact of re­form mea­sures that have been im­ple­mented by Ukraine to date. The Ukrainian side will not only eval­u­ate the ex­port op­por­tu­ni­ties for Ukrainian goods, but Ukrainian gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials will hear first-hand what still re­mains to be done to im­prove the busi­ness cli­mate to at­tract se­ri­ous in­vest­ment.”